How do you store all your children's toys?

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Just wondering how you separate all the crap toys. I'm not talking about big toy boxes, but how to keep all the little stuff together, dolly clothes, tea sets? At the moment we have one big basket for HappyLand, a smaller one for Peppa Pig stuff and a big basket for misc crap, but I want to be able to keep some stuff together.

Just wondering how you do it in an attractive but cheap way?

I use the Trofast stuff from Ikea for dd's smaller toys (polly pocket etc) and dolls clothes. Not too ££ and you can get a surprising amount in them!

I have one of those 3 tier fabric box shelving things from Next. It means that the trains/ cars/ playfood/ instruments/ ITNG stuff etc is all kept seperate but my 18mo can reach it.

dd has several small containers in her room and is under STRICT orders to keep all tiny toys (polly pocket, playmobil, barbie shoes) in these on her shelves as we have a 13 month old who will eat them if he finds them on the floor.

I still have to rampage around every now and again when she forgets but it works pretty well.

We have a lego set in the boys room but it's up on the desk and dd and ds1 are under orders to play with it up there, no moving allowed.

other than that anything that's not small enough to pose a danger to ds2 just gets lobbed into the various toy boxes... i finally gave up on keeping toys organised last year and i'm more relaxed for it!

Got some plastic drawers that slide under the beds. like this

But I've pulled out the drawers, so they are seperate.

One of them has all the cars in, one has misc - little figures, toy instruments etc and the other has dressing up stuff.

Then they've got a big brown box for the larger stuff - moonshoes, toy houses, etc

Then they've got these empty of course

One of them has all craft stuff - pipe cleaners etc, one of them has a 10pin bowling set and the other has all the psp games, wii remotes etc.

Then they've a set of drawers sort of like these but narrower

And each one is labelled - gogos, gormiti, paper, pens, bits and bobs, clay etc etc

then there's their shelves. Top shelf has gormiti playsets, next is lego, then board games and some cuddly toys, then last one is books.

I may have a touch of the old OCD

Thanks for the tips. I hadn't even thought about the fact that we have DC2 on the way!

I just found this but it's not going to be practical with a baby is it. I want something like that but drawers would be easier with a baby wouldn't it?

we have one like that bumper, it's one of the places we store general toys that ds2 can play with too... it has 4 drawers and one is devoted tocar, another to musical stuff and then too for random stuff... sylvanians, action figures, toy phones, smaller baby toys, etc.

we have two other boxes in teh playroom, one for dolls and one for dressing up stuff and we have a set of shelves... just cheap black plastic ones. the lowers shelves are all books and then higher up is the art stuff and playdough... well out of baby's reach!

We've got one of those, bumperlicious (except ours is from argos, £25, red blue and yellow boxes) works well to keep all the small toys together. Then we have two or three larger plastic boxes for his bigger toys, and a pop up thingy for his soft toys.

We have a baby on the way too, I can't see the boxes being a problem, but then we don't have anything with teeny tiny bits anyway as ds (2.7) still chews things and can't really be trusted.

sorry, just re read my post... i can spell honestly, just can't type very well

We have trofast from IKEA. Its great. The fact you can have different size tubs means you can tailor it exactly to whatever it is you need to put in them.

We even have a bits and bobs drawer for all the random crap that seems to accumulate e.g free stuff from magazines that seems the most important thing in the world for a while